There was a lot of good commentary late last week to the NLRB decision in the Browning-Ferris case, ruling that joint employer status applied to this contractor for the purpose.
A few weeks ago, I linked to a good in-depth discussion of how DuPont had poisoned the people of Parkersburg, West Virginia through the production of C8, the chemical making.
Well now this is interesting: It’s true that “y’all” is “the most identifiable feature of the dialect known as Southern American English.” But where did it come from? And how.
As Michael Grunwald observes, Katrina was a man-made disaster, and there are likely to be more where that came from: In his speech today in New Orleans for the 10th anniversary.
What does Donald Trump actually want? That is the practical question posed by his increasingly bizarre, and increasingly successful, "campaign." Jon Chait gets the essence of Trump's appeal exactly right:.
I'm now all battleships, all the time. Latest at National Interest: Is it time to bring back the battleship? For decades, naval architects have concentrated on building ships that, by.
Final figures for the 2014-15 application cycle are now available, and, as I predicted last December, the steep decline in applications to law school that began four years ago appears.
An outstanding polemic/manifesto from Kieran Healy on theorizing as a practice and its internal enemies. The general critiques and lessons here apply well beyond sociology: When faced with a problem.
